Playing on OSX and the game is pretty unstable, it crashes every now and then, but most often when I start the integrated IRC client. Turning off the menu backgrounds doesn't fix it, so I'm wondering, does the file you linked to work for the OSX version as well?

The above link doesn't work and the first hint to stop it crashing does not function (for me at least). Today I managed to spend five minutes on the tutorial before it began freezing every so often and then it froze completely, usually it freezes within a few seconds of starting up.

I sent a mail of to Steam support, although I am unsure if they can help either. Such a shame as they game looks great and I have had buggy games before but to get one that doesn't work straight out of the box is disappointing. Although the game may work for some people but I fail to see why my graphics card, for example, would cause a non beta game to crash. It should have been tested or buyers made aware of hardware issues, if that is the cause.

I'm having similar problems - at first the game would completely crash my PC every time it started up, so I had to do a hard reset each time. I then tried setting vsync to always on in the Catalyst Control Center and also disabled menu backgrounds in the game.

This did at least stop my PC from crashing completely when the game started, but now the game hangs for a long time after every 10 seconds or so of being responsive (I haven't actually been able to make it past the menus yet, so I can't say how the game itself behaves).

@markan:Those "file not exist: " entries also get noted on a working system (at least on mine), so don't think that's too much of a worry Do you have the latest Gfx drivers? Chipset drivers? etc. (the normal support questions )Info about your system probably would help the dev's in the troubleshooting (eg. OS, some hardware info, other stuff that might be relevant).